Describe a scene from a movie that left you gasping!

[Blondie]

One scene that totally freaked me out was the very end of The Planet Of The Apes!

When Charleton Heston is riding horseback and he comes upon half of the Statue of Liberty in the sand.

"You Maniacs! Damn you! You blew it up! G-d damn you!!!"

I think I was 10 or 11 years old....and sight of the Statue Of Liberty sticking out of the sand was horrifying! To comprehend that we have the capabilities to blow things up like that really frightened me.

 

[grinningghost]

The scene in the "Poseidon Adventure" where Gene Hackman is hanging from that pressure wheel thing and preaching to the other survivors - and then he just lets go, and he's gone... My parents took me to the drive-in to see that as a kid and it still gives me the shivers.

 

[adamak]

"You had me at hello."


ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

[SuiteDisney]

The part in the Exorcist where she has to go to the hospital for tests and they stick the needle in her neck and the blood starts spurting out.

 

[aahmom1]

At the end of Sixth Sense when the wife drops the wedding ring on the floor and it all came together in my head finally!

 

[JohnTBap]

Moulin Rouge


The whole thing.

Obi-Wan.

*sigh*

Yep.

 

[Saffron]

In Dr. Zhivago when the uncle asks Tonya how she came to be lost in the crowd running through the streets when they were being shelled during the war.

"Tell me Tonya, how was it that you came to be lost."
"I don't know?!"
"Tonya, how did you become lost?"
"He let go of my hand. He let go of my hand!!!!" *gasp*
"Would a father let go of your hand, Tonya?" *cry*

 

[nativetxn]

From Robin Hood Prince of Thieves:

Marian: You came for me!
Robin: I would die for you!

<i>sigh</i>

 

[Poohbear123]

It was about some astronauts, and one of them is outside the Ship trying to fix something, and his "life-line" gets stretched too far, and he floats off into space. I think I was 12 at the time, I don't remember, but think of that scene often.....

 

[Saffron]

How about this scene:

"Glug, glug .................................. glug.......................AHHHH, AHHH, AHHHHH, AHHHHHHHH."

That's from the opening scene from "Jaws". That was the first time I realized we are not alone when we play in the oceans. *gasp*

 

[bumcat]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre - when one of those crazy dudes picked up this girl and threw her on one of those big meat hooks (that you hang cow meat on) got her right in the back and left her hanging there.

 

[Michelle]

In Carrie, when the hand came out of the grave.

 

[Towncrier]

Michelle took my answer. I was sitting in the front row of an auditorium at college watching Carrie with a bunch of friends. When that hand came out of the grave, the whole front row levitated and we all gasped in unison.

The spinal tap in "The Exorcist" is a very close second.

The scene in Jaws where the corpse appears in the hole in the sunken ship.

And many scenes from the original Rollerball film with James Caan.

Why do we watch these things???

 

[Sandy51]

Ghost-the pottery wheel scene. (sigh)

Sandy

 

[Buckalew]

In the Wizard of OZ when Miss Gulch says,"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!"

Gosh, I still get chills from that witch.

 

[Sandy51]

Ghost-the pottery wheel scene. Also, if we can count miniseries, Father Ralph and Meggie on the beach. (sigh)

Sandy

 

[Serena]

Sandy, I like that scene too. Or the scene in Sleepless when they meet at the top of the ESB.

Lots of others, mainly romantic chick flicks.

 

[Blondie]

I just thought of another one...I just recently watched Hannibal...and I almost tossed my cookies when he was cooking up a piece of Ray Liotta's brain....and Ray says something like "oh that smells great!" Then he feeds it to him! AAAHHHH!!!!! He was eating his own brain!!!!

I'm telling ya, not too much grosses me out...but that scene did!

 

[The Mystery Machine]

"Trainspotting"
I have never been one to 'gasp' but this left me freaking out and I still shudder at the thought of it. Turned that movie off and never looked back.
Basically the movie is about drug addicts, mainly heroin. A group of them is hold up in their drug house and I suppose they continually did the drugs for days on end.
One of the girls had brought her baby with her and when she finally "comes too" after who knows how long, she goes over to the crib and...the baby is dead for a long time.
I just cannot stand that!

OK I know it is just a movie but it still FREAKS ME OUT.

The Exorcist used to top my list but not anymore.

 

[Lucky4me]

Sharkeys Machine, 1982. All I remember about the movie is Burt Reynolds gets his hand or fingers chopped off and they showed it. It put me into labor and I had my son a few hours later. Talk about gasping.